Click on the link below to download a copy of Arthur C Clarke’s landmark 1945 paper in which he suggested that three geostationary satellites could provide worldwide coverage.
Click on the link below to download a copy of of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report into the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia during its re-entry in February 2003.
Click on the link below to a download a more technical paper describing the scientific objectives of the ten year sky survey to carried out by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
Click on the link below to read the UN Secretary General’s summary at the end of the Glasgow Climate Conference held in November 2021.
COP26 UN Secretary General Summary
Click on the link below to review a summary of the gap between the producction of fossil fuels and what is needed to limit global warming by the end of the decade
UN Fossil Fuels Report November 2023
Click on the link below which gives an excellent explanation of how stellar aberration is explained by Einstein’s theory of special relativity
Stellar Aberration in special relativity
Click on the link below which gives a paper written back in 1991 by the British science writer Paul Birch (1956 -2012) on how Venus could be terraformed
Explaining Science 